I am very esctatic to tell the world that I won for the “Getting Ready” Category and received runner-up for “Couples Portrait” Category. Considering it was my first photography contest that I won, I was very surprised to win. When I got the call one morning I was speechless, it was one of those moments in life where you’re really happy and your brain has so many thoughts going on but nothing comes out of your mouth.

This is the winning photo for “Getting Ready”

Runner-up for Couples Portrait

These photos are also published in American Photo Magazine, and when they get published I’ll put up another post, but for now these will do

Erich Chen Photography. Los Angeles Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Orange County Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Look of Love Photography Contest Winner. Published in American Photo. Published in Destination Weddings and Honeymoon Magazine. If you are interested in booking me for a wedding please go to the contact page on my website www.erichchen.com

Meet Nicole and Daniel. Say hello. This might be hard to believe, but they aren’t models, they’re just regular non-model-y people just like you and me. But man they photograph well, don’t you think? Nicole and Daniel actually got married years ago, and they were one of my first few weddings that I’ve ever photographed in my entire life. They probably don’t know this but they helped me get my career off the ground by hiring me. A few years later, they decided that they wanted to do a trash the dress session, and here we are.

This shoot, in case you can’t tell is very fashion inspired. Daniel is a tall handsome man with freckles. Nicole is a young and beautiful woman, also with freckles. Freckles = fashion, duh! No just kidding but they are a really beautiful couple, and thats why I wanted to do a fashion type of shoot with them.I’d also like to describe this shoot, as “romantic, rustic, gorgeous, eye-gasmic, peaceful, and uh-may-zing.”

There’s a video coming out for this too, so you’ll be able to see what it was like working with them and in that environment, but better yet, this video is going to be very very different from the rest of my videos, so you’ll just have to wait to see what I’m talking about. Anyways, enjoy!

This shot below is my favorite shot of the shoot.

Erich Chen Photography. Los Angeles Wedding and Portrait Photographer. Orange County Wedding and Portrait Photographer. If you are interested in your own trash the dress session please contact me through my website www.erichchen.com

I’m back today from a 1 week trip from NYC, and it was a very wonderful, interesting, exciting trip! I’ll post some of those photos soon. But as much as I love traveling, it’s becoming harder and harder to enjoy traveling when TSA makes it harder and harder to get through security. I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually one day everyone has to go to the airport in their underwear, and in their underwear only. That might be easier than waiting in line to strip down and put it into plastic tubs just to put it back on again after you wait till everyone in front of you does the same. Bleh. Today, TSA pulled me aside to do a ‘random’ search, which only made my traveling experience less fun.

Anyway, this is Patty and Randy, they’re a happily (and sorta newly) married couple. In case you can’t tell, Randy’s in the Air Force which is why I shot him with jets, airplanes, and hangars in the background. I loved this shoot! This is some of my best work yet, I had a great looking couple in front of aircraft. Uber awesome.